tone matrix online synthesizer

Here's a cool little online sine wave synth.

It's very visual: just click in the grid where you want your sound to go and listen to the results. So you don't have to think like a musician: in fact you can just try to make pictures and hear what happens. You can also think about how symmetric your visual patterns are and how that affects the music produced (it seems to me that asymmetric patterns are more interesting, probably because they repeat so fast that symmetry is achieved that way).

The notes constitute a D major pentatonic scale, by the way, which means that it's this collection of tones:

d, e, f#, a, b, d...

You can also figure that temporally the 16 steps give you something like 16 sixteenth notes, or 4 quarter notes. If you look at it like this the quarter notes are coming by at M.M. 120.


Extremely fun.